HP Supplies Motorola with Additional Semiconductor-test Production Systems.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announces it has sold two additional HP semiconductor-test production systems to Motorola's Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group (MMTG MMTG Mid-Michigan Technicians Group (Midland, Michigan) ) since its first sale in May 1994. The sale is valued at approximately $1.5 million and is part of a cooperative effort between Motorola and HP to reduce Motorola's cost of test. Since the installation of the first system, HP support and high system reliability have kept uptime at 100 percent, eliminating test as a bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU in Motorola's production process. Other features that contribute to the overall reduction in test cost include high throughput, less rework re·work tr.v. re·worked, re·work·ing, re·works 1. To work over again; revise. 2. To subject to a repeated or new process. n. , high test availability, a flexible processor-per-pin architecture that makes it easy to add or change tests and the ability to verify signal integrity without the uncertainty caused by measurement error. The two new systems will be installed at Motorola's Oak Hill site outside of Austin, Texas, where they will work alongside several other HP systems already in non-stop production. All of the systems are used to test or debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. a variety of products, including the PowerPC microprocessor(1) and the Motorola 68000 family. "Working together has been a win-win proposition," said John Scruggs, general manager of HP's Automated Test Business Unit. "Motorola has been very open about its needs. We've worked together to apply state-of-the-art HP technology to their next-generation products, and the result has been a significant reduction in the cost of test. It's been very satisfying to go to full-scale production and see how much the system operators appreciate the ease of use, low load times and predictable behavior of the system." Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing computing - computer , communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,600 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: (1) The PowerPC is a product of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Anil Bhalla, 408/553-7056 |
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